单词 | to dream up |
释义 | > as lemmasto dream up to dream up transitive. Originally: to imagine or envisage in or as in a dream. Now chiefly: to devise (an idea, plan, etc., esp. one that is ingenious or fanciful); to invent, think up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 1837 Morning Chron. 12 Jan. With our Shakespeare in hand, and bright forms in our brain, we can dream up our Siddons and Kembles again. 1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton 53 Everything [sc. plants and trees personified] appeared to be dreaming up old memories. 1904 R. E. Young Henderson iii. 81 He..shook himself out of the dream: ‘Oh, you fool!’ he told himself sharply; ‘always dreaming up some smoke-woman, some bachelor's comfort.’ 1916 N.Y. Tribune 8 June 11/1 I'd try to dream up some new scheme and never thought I'd do it. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 16 Nov. 3 A slick political trick, such as might have been dreamed up by a bright Chicago wardheeler. 1997 Food & Wine Sept. 73/2 ‘Guido Reni? What made you dream that up?’‘I didn't dream it up,’ said Carlo. ‘It is a Bolognese dish that goes back for generations.’ 2004 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 21/4 Senior officers who..are not obsessed with dreaming up some whizzy new scheme in order to achieve the next rank. < as lemmas |
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